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单词 lay brother
释义

lay brother

(or lay sister)
noun
A person who has taken the vows of a religious order but is not ordained or obliged to take part in the full cycle of liturgy and is employed in ancillary or manual work.One of the monks, an elderly lay brother named Luc, was a medical doctor who ran a clinic for the impoverished locals....
  • He came from Toledo and was a famous painter of still lifes there by 1603 when he professed as a lay brother in the Carthusian order and moved to Granada.
  • It became one of the largest Cistercian houses, with 140 monks, 240 lay brothers, and at least as many again servants.
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